Professor Brian Cox is coming to Derby again in a new tour that will kick off at Derby Arena. It promises to take audiences to “the edge of our current understanding about the origin and evolution of the universe”.

Professor Cox previously visited the city in May of this year. Now he has chosen Derby as the starting point for another trip around the UK and Ireland.

This show, which will begin on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 8pm, is called Professor Brian Cox Live 2019.

As well as a regular on television, he is Professor of particle physics at The University of Manchester and a fellow and professor for public engagement in science for the Royal Society.

Professor Cox sold out shows across the UK and Ireland in his 2016 tour

He said: “On the last tour I loved talking about astronomy and cosmology in very large venues that usually only host rock bands.

“The great advantage was the ability to use vast, state of the art screens to display images of the cosmos as we’ve never seen them before. 30 meter-wide images from the Hubble Space Telescope are certainly something to behold.

“On this new tour, I’m going to go a step further with the technology, to the horror of my promoter because it’ll be bloody expensive.

“But it’ll be bloody spectacular as well, and I hope it’ll offer people a completely new perspective on our place in the universe.”

The previous UK and Ireland tour broke his own Guinness World Record for most tickets sold for a science tour, a title which Professor Cox previously held. The tour that started in 2016 had over 150,000 attend in total.

During the tour, Professor Cox will once again be joined by comedian and co-host of the BBC Radio 4 program The Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince, to oversee an audience Q&A session.